RE: ipchains
From my understanding, all the rules should be in /etc/ipmasq/rules -Original Message- From: Colin Marquardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ipchains * Sven Esbjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:54:39AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. Where in debian can I put these. The correct place for bootscripts in Debian is /etc/rcS.d . Normally you would put the actual script in /etc/init.d and a symlink to it from /etc/rcS.d . ...and these symlinks can be set up with /usr/sbin/update-rc.d (mentioning this before you do this by hand). -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Lock file Debs over NFS
I can't get access to my debs on my desktop over the network. This lock file is getting in my way! Okay my laptop hostname is debian (just installed) and my desktop is viper. For some reason when I do apt-get dist-upgrade, a lock file is created and it won't delete it and complete the command. Also, my archive cache directory has been changed to /mnt/debs on both machines. It works fine on my desktop, but the laptop which accesses the debs via nfs doesn't like it. Any ideas? debian:/mnt/debs# rm lock debian:/mnt/debs# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-base 39 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. E: Could not get lock /mnt/debs/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the download directory debian:/mnt/debs# mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) viper:/mnt/debs on /mnt/debs type nfs (rw,addr=10.0.0.1) debian:/mnt/debs# Export file on viper: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt# cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /mnt/aptdebian(rw,no_root_squash) /mnt/apt/archives debian(rw,no_root_squash) /mnt/debs debian(rw,no_root_squash) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt#
RE: kerneld won't go away!
I added a line noauto in /etc/modules file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Ballard Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 1:57 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: kerneld won't go away! Why is it that, even after religiously running update-rc.d -f kerneld remove and /etc/init.d/kerneld stop, kerneld keeps coming back every time the modutils package is upgraded? I get a warning that I almost certainly shouldn't be running it, and then it starts it back up and installs it back into rc.d. How do I make kerneld go away? Thanks, Stuart. PS does *anyone* know what's up with mozilla? Will debian ever get M11? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Newbie Questions
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine. I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the archive. It can get involved... Bb -Original Message- From: Brian Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie Questions Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't work. When I look at it's properties I see gnome-help-browser however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine. Where do I get this? Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment. I added unstable to my sources.list file and did apt-get update apt-get install enlightenment It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest enlightenment? Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first? Thanks very much!!! Brian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
NIS over Internet
From what I understand NIS isn't encrypted. NIS+ is, but NIS+ doesn't work out of the box and requires a bunch of extra shit to make work. Is there a way to ssh yp or something to get it working? I'd like to use it, but all my servers are spread apart. Thanks. bb
Q: pts? vs ttyp?
I had a problem recently with running out of available ports on a server. I switched to UNIX98 in trying to resolve the problem. So far, I haven't had a problem, but now I notice that some people who access the server connect as pts/? And some connect as ttyp?. All pts connections are made with telnet and ssh1. ttyp connections are listed when someone connects with ssh2 or if I enable ttysnoop. Should I be concerned about this? What is the difference? Any further help would be great. This is puzzling. Brendon
Squid + modroamin
How can I get squid + junkbuster + modroaming to work? I think the problem is that I have my browser setup for proxing to junkbuster which goes to squid. Modroaming doesn't appear to work through the proxy. If I don't proxy, it works fine. Is there a way around this? I'm using potato (latest) and Netscape 4.6. (windows) Thanks. Brendon
more about garbled terminal
Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist on my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be something I don't know =) Brendon
RE: more about garbled terminal
As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured and setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing something? From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist on my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be something I don't know =) Brendon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: more about garbled terminal
Sorry for being dense maybe, but I don't understand the solution. What does screen have to do with garbled stuff? The problem I face is TERM=linux when I login via CRT. Nothing to do with screen. brendon -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Good news! I installed the `screen' package and it works like a charm... I set my configuration to ansi and used grep to make sure and this is what I got: TERM=ansi _=TERM Then I shut down the telnet session, started a new one, logged in using vt100 and this is what I got after using grep: TERM=vt100 If that isn't enough, I tested it further by setting the terminal type in my client to dec-whatever the hell. This is my responce from grep: TERM=dec-vt100 So in conclusion, this is the answer to all of the problems. Let me know if it works for you. From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:25:40 GMT Hey, I found something. Go to dselect and look under All Packages and Opt_misc there is a package there called `screen', it says it emulates different screens on virtual terminals its worth a check out... From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:40:50 GMT I see your point if you use the real terminal (monitor hooked to linux box) and if you use a telnet. I just hooked up my monitor to my server after I set the env var to vt100 to satisfy my telnet. The real terminal was skrewed up, so I had to set it back to ansi. I suppose it is the telnet daemons responsibility. I'll have to look into it. From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:20:03 -0700 As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured and setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing something? From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist on my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be something I don't know =) Brendon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: more about garbled terminal
Awesome. Well, at least for some reason your message here embarked me on a new idea. My problem has something to do with something I run in my .profile. I think i'll have some new questions now =) . Aite folks, I copied someone's .profile and it has some weird prompt stuff ..that for some reason sets TERM=linux ...whew. ..all fixed. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Good news! I installed the `screen' package and it works like a charm... I set my configuration to ansi and used grep to make sure and this is what I got: TERM=ansi _=TERM Then I shut down the telnet session, started a new one, logged in using vt100 and this is what I got after using grep: TERM=vt100 If that isn't enough, I tested it further by setting the terminal type in my client to dec-whatever the hell. This is my responce from grep: TERM=dec-vt100 So in conclusion, this is the answer to all of the problems. Let me know if it works for you. From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:25:40 GMT Hey, I found something. Go to dselect and look under All Packages and Opt_misc there is a package there called `screen', it says it emulates different screens on virtual terminals its worth a check out... From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:40:50 GMT I see your point if you use the real terminal (monitor hooked to linux box) and if you use a telnet. I just hooked up my monitor to my server after I set the env var to vt100 to satisfy my telnet. The real terminal was skrewed up, so I had to set it back to ansi. I suppose it is the telnet daemons responsibility. I'll have to look into it. From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:20:03 -0700 As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured and setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing something? From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist on my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be something I don't know =) Brendon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Sound - ALSA or kernel?
Hmm, you'll have to use isapnp for it. I know there is a awe howto out there also. Another thing is to check the kernel docs. There is some awe stuff in there. Good luck. From my soundcard experiences, using oss in the kernel is much easier. I hear alsa is better, but if you don't need its betterness ... go the easy way till alsa is mroe integrated and improved. bb -Original Message- From: Carley, Jason (Australia) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:46 PM To: 'debian-user list' Subject: Sound - ALSA or kernel? I was after ideas on the best way to get my Awe 64 running under slink. Should I use the ALSA drivers or the kernel modules. Under SuSE I had great difficulty with isapnp issues and the kernel modules. Thoughts? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: other news questions
So an ISP uses inn, but do they use nntpcache? What does it do exactly? I understand it caches, but how, what rules, etc? Well, I'll be setting up some kind of news system, not sure what yet bb -Original Message- From: Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: other news questions I have been following the thread about news, inn, nntpcache, etc. I would also like to set up a news server. I currently have installed but have not configured inn and nntpcache. I would like to have my setup mirror they way an isp would setup a news server. What is the best way of going about doing this. I know there is a huge O'Reilly book on news so this is probably not a simple matter. Is there some good documentation or an online primer I can look at? Thanks. O ya, what is a newsfeed? -- _ NatePuri (natedawg) o m p a g e s . c o m Certified Law Student p e r c r v t i o f i McGeorge School of Law e d i c a e a n m n Sacramento, CA n i v e t r y m d [EMAIL PROTECTED] a a s e y s t u s [EMAIL PROTECTED] t s d o h n http://www.ompages.com e n i i e s t y -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: windowmaker and gnome
It should already be loading, you might find a bunch of errors in your .xsession. it appears there is some bug in loading gnome-panel when you load it the first time. Other times seem to work. bb -Original Message- From: Aaron Solochek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 9:59 PM To: debian- user Subject: windowmaker and gnome Ok, I think gnome is running fine however I want the panel and midnight commander to start when I startx. Putting these in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart causes windowmakeer to freeze just as it loads. So how can I get the panel to autoload? Also, on a more general note, is there someway to get autoloading apps to be autoplaced, eventhough I have manual placement turned on? I am basically trying to avoid having to click the mouse to place my eterm when X starts. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How to disable prompt erase downloaded debs
Is it possible to stop dselect from asking Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files (y/n)? prompt? There is an option in apt-get for this already. I'd rather have it default to no! I keep pressing enter and nuking hundreds of megs! what can i do?? bb
gnome session-panel X problems
I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i press ctrl-alt-bkspc. Anyone know why this might be? I can't figure it out. I'm running the latest potato. Brendon
telnet terminal gets garbled
I don't know why this happens, but when I telnet to my machine and I use dselect, emacs, or whatever. The text gets messed up. I use CRT for telneting. I have it set to vt100 and have the ansi box checked in the settings. I telnet to slackware boxes with the same settings and they work fine. It seems that Debian doesn't interpret what I type properly. Is there a way to fix this? bb
RE: gnome session-panel X problems
I don't have an .xsession file, or mabye I dleted it in trying to clense the problem. I deleted all the X related hidden stuff. .gnome* and such. I tried to get it to revert to defaults to see if that would help, but it doesn't. Seems like gnome doesn't understand i want to exit!! Well, I thought the problem was sound (trying to play a sound on exit and getting stuck) ..but i got sound working and thats not the case. I've removed and reinstalled gnome too.Hmm ..to be continued. Anyone else see this problem? bb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 8:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome session-panel X problems In a message dated 7/3/99 8:02:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. What does your .xsession file say? You might not have panel listed as booting up. Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i press ctrl-alt-bkspc. Anyone know why this might be? I can't figure it out. Why not just start an xterm and use the shutdown command? There's not really anything you can't do in X that you can in console. Hope this helps. Colin Winters
RE: gnome session-panel X problems
I just went through my logs and I have the same errors in my .gnome-errors file. My .gnome-errors is 14k! Thats from one start of gnome, but it looks like they are mostly errors with sound. I'll try and fix that now and see what else happens. Brendon -Original Message- From: Didi Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 9:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome session-panel X problems Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. I have the same problem. Whenever I try to start the gnome panel and/or gmc they fail with this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.enlightenment/cached/pager/ panel ** WARNING **: Could not get name service! ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_server_activate): assertion failed: (name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL) aborting... Aborted If I issue the command a second time they start normal. This has the implications that I can't start either when I start X. If I 'exec gnome-session' in .xsession, I don't get the panel. If I specify to load the panel explicitely it just hangs for a moment and then it barfs out. I had this problem from the beginning,, with gnome 1.06 and yesterday I upgraded to 1.07 but it didn't solve it. Does anybody know what's wrong and how can I fix it ? TIA -- D.Damian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
apt-get errors
anyone know how I can fix this mess? Seems like the scripts are broken or something... viper:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xfig 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/443kB of archives. After unpacking 2048B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package xfig. (Reading database ... 48281 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xfig 1:3.2.2-10 (using .../xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xfig ... syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ); syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ); BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ); syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ); BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ); syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ); BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) viper:/var/cache/apt/archives#
RE: dependencies
I now notice that apt-get is stuck at 99.2% CPU usage when its stuck. There are no pending packages to be configured. Aptget -f install hit the Correcting dependencies message ..and got stuck. bb -Original Message- From: Mark Wagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 3:05 PM To: Brendon Baumgartner Subject: Re: dependencies Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I don't get any error messages. When i'm using dselect and it does checking dependencies it gets stuck. It just sits there and does nothing. I did an upgrade to my potato system using apt-get dist-upgrade. Nothing fancy. Real odd if anything. Is there a way to rebuild the dependency database or whatever it uses? I'm stuck for now. I don't know about re-building the dependency database. When I run apt-get update, it connects with each server, then tells me that it's reading the Package Lists and Building the Dependency Tree. You might try apt-get -f update. Also, if any packages are giving you problems, you can type dpkg --configure --pending. That will configure anything that's not already configure. If it encounters errors, it'll diplay them and suggest what packages may fix them. Try this and see what happens. If you're still having problems, then I suggest you post to the list. There are people there who are a million times more knowledgeable than I am. hth -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
RE: xfstt
Thanks to this thread, I FINALLY got xfstt to work. I found out that once you have xset +fs set for your port, you can't restart xfstt without restarting the whole X system. Anyhow, took me awhile to get it working. I have one question though. I could have sworn the outlook 2000 ttf worked once in netscape and it looked great. Now whenever i select the outlook font (which i got from win), it just displays a mess. It does this with one or two others. Is this normal? Brendon -Original Message- From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:18 PM To: Arcady Genkin Subject: Re: xfstt On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 06:07:41PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. Here's an example: [snip] Thanks Arcady, and thanks also to Allan Wind. The problem is now solved and both xdm and Netscape are back to their old selves :) Thanks again, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: xfstt
Do you have an exaple for setting up xfs and replacing all the X fontpath config lines? Seems I can't get it working properly. BB -Original Message- From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xfstt Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. Here's an example: Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath unix/:7101 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection -- Arcady Genkin ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.
I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how obvious modconf is to a new user. I don't remeber it being mentioned during install, but i could be wrong. Well, I hope his luck improves. I agree it is dificult for someone to jump right into debian even if they have used other distributions. I spent a whole day playing with it the fist time I set it up, and still had problems for awhile. Actually, i'm still having problems to this day, but I'm use to Debian, so i firgure most of them out quickly... well, except for ALSA that is =) ... Brendon -Original Message- From: Paul Seelig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:34 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far. Message: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
RE: Random partitioning questions
There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail. Maybe it was one of their admin docs. Not sure. For me, I make partitions of: / /usr /home swap I sometimes get more creative depending on the purpose of the system. If its a news server or high traffic mail server, i would make a /var also. You could seperate /usr and /usr/local also, but that starts to get more extreme. Its up to you. Brendon -Original Message- From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:04 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Random partitioning questions Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions! Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard, not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong. So, i'm thinking of backing up everything and making some more partitions. 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev, parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the 1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, which do apply in my case. Do i understand correctly? 2. If i were partitioning a new HD, what would be a good size for the partition containing just those directories, that wouldn't waste too much space. Right now on my system, du -c reports 18M for that list, so i'm thinking 50M would allow plenty of room for expansion? 3. How about sizes for other partitions? /home i'm thinking 750M (personal workstation, 6 users that are just different mailing addresses for me), 1G for /var (with /tmp - /var/tmp, is that a bad idea?), 2.1G for /usr. 4. hda1 should be /, but how about the rest? home var swap usr as 2 3 4 5? 5. What am i missing, that i think i fit everything (including 64M of swap) onto a 4G HD? ;) Just trying to learn here. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: can bind keep best routes ?
Ummm ...what does bind have to do with routing? -Original Message- From: Jean-Yves F. Barbier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can bind keep best routes ? Hi all, I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a file. Is it really possible? And how can I set it up? I'd like to keep all the routes used to access certain web servers. -- Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membre fondateur du CGE La justice immanente est rarement imminente. P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Alsa and sb16. No go.
Here is the error ... viper:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting sound driver: snd-sb16 /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy snd-sb-dsp: No such file or directory failed. viper:~# The file /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o exists. I compiled the kernel with module sound support and thats all. No card or anything selected. I also compiled and isntalled the alsa modules. I ran alsaconfig. I'm not getting anywhere though. I'm not even sure where to look. Anyone have a good idea? Brendon
RE: apt-get configuration for multi cd set
Point it to the second CD. It contains the first and the second. I believe the installation instructions discuss this. I first installed without reading instructions, and I didn't figure this out till later. It would be nice if you could install without ever having to read the installation instructions. Brendon -Original Message- From: Frank Petzold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 5:23 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apt-get configuration for multi cd set How should I configure apt-get to use 1) my 2 CD binary distribution 2) ftp.debian.org in this order? specifying file:/cd for the CD set seems inappropriate, because there are 2 CDs, and it should tell me which one to insert, just like dselect does, or go to ftp. Is this possible at all? Please reply by personal email, because I am not subscribed to this list. -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89-56 Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of IBM. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Confused package database
I somewhat screwed up my package database and had to revert to an old one. Now it thinks I have some stuff that is installed which isn't and some that it thinks is installed and is not. WHen I run install in dselect, I get a lot of these. I guess i'm saying, how do I reinitialize the package database? dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `wdiff' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `cftp' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. THanks, Brendon
bashrc file gone! Where is it?
I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. Brendon
dselect wants to remove everything! Stop!
Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall? How do i reset the damn thing? I think debs are great, but having to use dsleect is just a nightmare. Thanks for any help! Brendon
